Meet the Capital Letters

**PAL Award Winner**

About this Book

Amusing rhymes and illustrations playfully introduce the alphabet and foster letter recognition by creatively giving “life” to the letters, based on their shapes, and revealing what they do when they’re not busy making words.

Rhymes are a powerful teaching tool and play an integral part in helping children develop critical thinking and memory skills, oral language, phonetic awareness, sound discrimination, and increased vocabulary.

The visual and auditory pictures created by the rhymes facilitate easy recall of not only the letter shapes and sounds but also how to correctly form the letters when writing them. For example:

• Reciting letter C’s rhyme, your child can recall that letter C looks like a circle; however, her right side remains open where the cats come in to doze.

• Reciting letter K’s rhyme, your child can visualize letter K flying the kite and recall that her right arm is stretched up and her right leg sticks forward for balance.

Children learn best through playful experiences, all of which serve as a springboard for literacy and help inspire subsequent reading and writing success. Recite the rhymes during play and while observing letters in daily and routine events. Add the rhymes to games and other fun activities that stimulate exploration and discovery.

As you read the book, engage your child in conversations about the letters and their activities that promote imaginative thinking. For example, why do you think letter I loves books? How can you stay fit like letter F? What would you cook at a barbeque with letter B?

• Younger children can point to their own head, arm, belly, etc., as you read about the letters’ anatomy.

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Good evening, everyone! I’ve been really busy on some very exciting things that are coming in the near future but I wanted to give a big shout-out to all you amazing teachers out there. Although my boys are older now, I’m still so grateful to the incredibly caring teachers who touched their lives in such […]